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04-04-2006, 05:35 PM
The Spiders
Chapter (1) through Questions and Answers:
1-Why did the four robbers go to (break into) the archaeological site (tomb)?
• They went there to rob it of the gold and treasures.
2-What did the robbers do in order not to be seen or heard by the archaeologists?
• They used two land cruisers with local number plates. They switched off their lights and engines. They stopped 200 metres from the tents of archaeologists and walked 50 metres through darkness.
3-Where did the team of archaeologists find gold and other treasures?
• They found gold and other treasures in two old rooms in a remote part of the western desert.
4-Why did the four men switch off their lights and engines?
• Because they didn’t want the archaeologists to see or hear them.
5-What happened when the four men entered the rooms of the tomb?
• They switched on their lights and torches and made a loud noise. That disturbed the spiders and they began to bite them.
6-What did the archaeologists do with the gold?
• They sent them to the museum in Cairo.
7-Why did the small man shout, “let’s get out of here”?
• As he felt a bite on his leg and the spider bit him three times and after that he saw spiders everywhere.
8-What equipment did they use in the robbery?
• They used Ground Penetrating Radar, a machine like a camera, a computer, a pickaxe and a hammer.
9-How did the machine (GPR) show what was behind the walls?
• It transmitted the radio waves through the wall, when the waves hit something on the other side, they came back to it. The computer changed the radio waves into a picture.
10-Why didn’t the oldest man worry about the spider’s bites?
• Because he thought that there weren’t any deadly spiders in Egypt.
11-What did the men find in the underground rooms?
• They found five ancient Egyptians mummies, gold and other treasures.
12-What equipment did they use to see through walls?
• They used Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR).
13-Why didn’t the Egyptian archaeologists use Ground Penetrating Radar?
• They didn’t use it as it is very expensive.
14-Why were the men excited when they went through the gold doors of the tomb?
• Because there were lots of gold and treasures.
15-Why did the men have to leave the underground?
• As the spiders were biting them all.
16-How did the robbers meet their end?
• They were severely bitten be the deadly spiders.
17-Why were the spiders an unknown species?
• Because no one had seen them and they were not on the database.
18-What did the pilot do when he saw the robbers’ cars below?
• He brought the helicopter down. They ran towards them to offer them water but they found them dead.
19-Who were inside the helicopter?
• The pilot, the engineer and the technician.
20-What were the men inside the helicopter doing?
• They were on their way to a transmitter in the desert, which had a technical problem.
21-In the pilot’s opinion, what killed the four men?
• He believed they had died of thirst and heat.
22-How did the engineer save the pilot’s life?
• When he suggested getting on the radio to tell the police so the pilot returned to the helicopter before the spider’s bite.
23-How was the robbers’ accident discovered?
• A helicopter was flying across the desert and the pilot saw the cars and examined them, they were dead so they reported the matter to the police.
24-Where did the police drive the robbers’ cars?
• To the police station in “Hamadayya” south west of Cairo.
25-How did the robbers know that they had reached the wanted place?
• When they found paintings of ancient Egyptian gods and writing from 3,000 years ago
26-How did the four robbers distribute tasks?
• The oldest man gave instructions and orders as a leader. The small man carried a machine like a camera to transmit radio waves. The strong-looking man was carrying a bag full of tools. The tall man carried a computer to change the radio waves into pictures.
27-Which spider was still alive in one of the land cruisers?
• The biggest spider.
28-How did the engineer save the pilot’s life?
• When the engineer suggested getting on the radio to the police, the pilot returned to the helicopter. His hand had been near the spiders before he moved away. They could have bitten and killed him.
Quotations with Modal Answers:
1-“There are probably more rooms. If they contain gold too, we’ll be rich.”
a- Who said this quotation? To whom?
b- Where was this quotation said? c- Why did the speaker expect to find gold?
The answer:
a-The oldest man said it to the tallest man of the robbers.
b-At the archaeological site in the Western Desert.
c-As the archaeologists found the treasure in one of the rooms and carried them to a museum
2-“A team of six archaeologists found these two rooms last weeks.”
a- Who was the speaker? To whom?
b)What did the archaeologists find inside the rooms? c-What did the speaker suggest?
The answer:
a- The oldest man said it to the band of robbers.
b- They found five ancient Egyptian mummies in the first room, but the second room was empty.
c- He suggests finding more rooms that hadn’t been found yet by the archaeologists.
3-“We must find what we want and get out before morning”
a- What did the speaker see in the underground passage?
b- What was the plan to get the treasure?
c- Why was it necessary to finish their job quickly?
The answer:
a- He saw underground city and two gold doors.
b- The plan was to get the gold and go to their cars quickly.
c- As the spiders bit them and they were every where.
4-“Get the gold and let’s go.”
a- How could the four men find out what the room contained?
b- What did they find there? c- Where did they take the treasures?
The answer:
a- By using GPR and the computer.
b- They found ancient Egyptian mummies, some gold and other treasures.
c- They took them to their cars.
5-“If there are more rooms here, this machine will find them in minutes.”
a- What dies the speaker mean by this machine? b- Who was the speaker?
c- What does the word “them” refer to?
The answer:
a- This machine refers to Ground Penetrating Radar that transmits radio waves through walls.
b- The small man was the speaker.
c- It refers to the gold and treasures in the underground rooms.
6-“Let’s get out of here.”
a- Why did the speaker suggest getting out of the place?
b- What was the order given to him? c- Greed blinded the addressee. Show how.
The answer:
a- The big man said it because he was bitten severely by the spiders.
b- He was ordered to take the gold and leave.
c- As he was interested in getting gold regardless of the dangers of the spiders.
7-“There aren’t deadly spiders in Egypt. We might get sick, but we don’t die.”
a- Who was the speaker? b- Was his opinion right? c- How was he mistaken?
The answer:
a - The oldest man said it to the robbers.
b- No, it wasn’t as they died of the bites after a short time.
c-He was mistaken as he thought that they might get sick but wouldn’t die. Yet they died
Completion with model answers:
1- The four robbers switched off their cars’ lights and engines when they reached the archaeological site so that……… the archaeologists couldn’t see or hear them.
2- Although the robbers’ cars had local number plates, .... the men were not Egyptians. (foreigners)
3- The robbers had brought radar equipment with them so that...... they could identify rooms under the ground.
4- GPR equipment included a computer that....... changed returning radio waves into a picture of what was in the ground.
5- GPR equipment used a machine like a large camera which…….. transmitted radio waves through the ground.
6- The Egyptian archaeologists didn’t use GPR because .....it was very expensive.
7- The robbers used a pickaxe and a heavy hammer to ...... knock down the walls of any room that the radar equipment detected.
8- The robbers were excited when they went through the gold doors as ..... they saw a lot of treasures in the room.
9- As soon as the robbers carried the treasure out of the room, the spiders ….bit them.
10-The oldest man thought that they might get sick, but they couldn’t die as ......there weren’t any deadly spiders in Egypt.
11- The cars of the four robbers contained ......... treasures and a deadly spider.
12- The four robbers were all killed by ......... the spiders’ bites.
13- The dead robbers and the cars were found by……. a helicopter pilot.
14- When the pilot saw the robbers’ cars below,……. he brought the helicopter down and they hurried to help them.
15-The pilot thought that the four robbers died because ….they had run out of water.
16-When the engineer said, “We’d better get on the radio.” the pilot...... left the car and returned to the helicopter.
17- The engineer saved the pilot’s life when ......... he asked him to return to the helicopter to report the police.
Chapter (1) through Questions and Answers:
1-Why did the four robbers go to (break into) the archaeological site (tomb)?
• They went there to rob it of the gold and treasures.
2-What did the robbers do in order not to be seen or heard by the archaeologists?
• They used two land cruisers with local number plates. They switched off their lights and engines. They stopped 200 metres from the tents of archaeologists and walked 50 metres through darkness.
3-Where did the team of archaeologists find gold and other treasures?
• They found gold and other treasures in two old rooms in a remote part of the western desert.
4-Why did the four men switch off their lights and engines?
• Because they didn’t want the archaeologists to see or hear them.
5-What happened when the four men entered the rooms of the tomb?
• They switched on their lights and torches and made a loud noise. That disturbed the spiders and they began to bite them.
6-What did the archaeologists do with the gold?
• They sent them to the museum in Cairo.
7-Why did the small man shout, “let’s get out of here”?
• As he felt a bite on his leg and the spider bit him three times and after that he saw spiders everywhere.
8-What equipment did they use in the robbery?
• They used Ground Penetrating Radar, a machine like a camera, a computer, a pickaxe and a hammer.
9-How did the machine (GPR) show what was behind the walls?
• It transmitted the radio waves through the wall, when the waves hit something on the other side, they came back to it. The computer changed the radio waves into a picture.
10-Why didn’t the oldest man worry about the spider’s bites?
• Because he thought that there weren’t any deadly spiders in Egypt.
11-What did the men find in the underground rooms?
• They found five ancient Egyptians mummies, gold and other treasures.
12-What equipment did they use to see through walls?
• They used Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR).
13-Why didn’t the Egyptian archaeologists use Ground Penetrating Radar?
• They didn’t use it as it is very expensive.
14-Why were the men excited when they went through the gold doors of the tomb?
• Because there were lots of gold and treasures.
15-Why did the men have to leave the underground?
• As the spiders were biting them all.
16-How did the robbers meet their end?
• They were severely bitten be the deadly spiders.
17-Why were the spiders an unknown species?
• Because no one had seen them and they were not on the database.
18-What did the pilot do when he saw the robbers’ cars below?
• He brought the helicopter down. They ran towards them to offer them water but they found them dead.
19-Who were inside the helicopter?
• The pilot, the engineer and the technician.
20-What were the men inside the helicopter doing?
• They were on their way to a transmitter in the desert, which had a technical problem.
21-In the pilot’s opinion, what killed the four men?
• He believed they had died of thirst and heat.
22-How did the engineer save the pilot’s life?
• When he suggested getting on the radio to tell the police so the pilot returned to the helicopter before the spider’s bite.
23-How was the robbers’ accident discovered?
• A helicopter was flying across the desert and the pilot saw the cars and examined them, they were dead so they reported the matter to the police.
24-Where did the police drive the robbers’ cars?
• To the police station in “Hamadayya” south west of Cairo.
25-How did the robbers know that they had reached the wanted place?
• When they found paintings of ancient Egyptian gods and writing from 3,000 years ago
26-How did the four robbers distribute tasks?
• The oldest man gave instructions and orders as a leader. The small man carried a machine like a camera to transmit radio waves. The strong-looking man was carrying a bag full of tools. The tall man carried a computer to change the radio waves into pictures.
27-Which spider was still alive in one of the land cruisers?
• The biggest spider.
28-How did the engineer save the pilot’s life?
• When the engineer suggested getting on the radio to the police, the pilot returned to the helicopter. His hand had been near the spiders before he moved away. They could have bitten and killed him.
Quotations with Modal Answers:
1-“There are probably more rooms. If they contain gold too, we’ll be rich.”
a- Who said this quotation? To whom?
b- Where was this quotation said? c- Why did the speaker expect to find gold?
The answer:
a-The oldest man said it to the tallest man of the robbers.
b-At the archaeological site in the Western Desert.
c-As the archaeologists found the treasure in one of the rooms and carried them to a museum
2-“A team of six archaeologists found these two rooms last weeks.”
a- Who was the speaker? To whom?
b)What did the archaeologists find inside the rooms? c-What did the speaker suggest?
The answer:
a- The oldest man said it to the band of robbers.
b- They found five ancient Egyptian mummies in the first room, but the second room was empty.
c- He suggests finding more rooms that hadn’t been found yet by the archaeologists.
3-“We must find what we want and get out before morning”
a- What did the speaker see in the underground passage?
b- What was the plan to get the treasure?
c- Why was it necessary to finish their job quickly?
The answer:
a- He saw underground city and two gold doors.
b- The plan was to get the gold and go to their cars quickly.
c- As the spiders bit them and they were every where.
4-“Get the gold and let’s go.”
a- How could the four men find out what the room contained?
b- What did they find there? c- Where did they take the treasures?
The answer:
a- By using GPR and the computer.
b- They found ancient Egyptian mummies, some gold and other treasures.
c- They took them to their cars.
5-“If there are more rooms here, this machine will find them in minutes.”
a- What dies the speaker mean by this machine? b- Who was the speaker?
c- What does the word “them” refer to?
The answer:
a- This machine refers to Ground Penetrating Radar that transmits radio waves through walls.
b- The small man was the speaker.
c- It refers to the gold and treasures in the underground rooms.
6-“Let’s get out of here.”
a- Why did the speaker suggest getting out of the place?
b- What was the order given to him? c- Greed blinded the addressee. Show how.
The answer:
a- The big man said it because he was bitten severely by the spiders.
b- He was ordered to take the gold and leave.
c- As he was interested in getting gold regardless of the dangers of the spiders.
7-“There aren’t deadly spiders in Egypt. We might get sick, but we don’t die.”
a- Who was the speaker? b- Was his opinion right? c- How was he mistaken?
The answer:
a - The oldest man said it to the robbers.
b- No, it wasn’t as they died of the bites after a short time.
c-He was mistaken as he thought that they might get sick but wouldn’t die. Yet they died
Completion with model answers:
1- The four robbers switched off their cars’ lights and engines when they reached the archaeological site so that……… the archaeologists couldn’t see or hear them.
2- Although the robbers’ cars had local number plates, .... the men were not Egyptians. (foreigners)
3- The robbers had brought radar equipment with them so that...... they could identify rooms under the ground.
4- GPR equipment included a computer that....... changed returning radio waves into a picture of what was in the ground.
5- GPR equipment used a machine like a large camera which…….. transmitted radio waves through the ground.
6- The Egyptian archaeologists didn’t use GPR because .....it was very expensive.
7- The robbers used a pickaxe and a heavy hammer to ...... knock down the walls of any room that the radar equipment detected.
8- The robbers were excited when they went through the gold doors as ..... they saw a lot of treasures in the room.
9- As soon as the robbers carried the treasure out of the room, the spiders ….bit them.
10-The oldest man thought that they might get sick, but they couldn’t die as ......there weren’t any deadly spiders in Egypt.
11- The cars of the four robbers contained ......... treasures and a deadly spider.
12- The four robbers were all killed by ......... the spiders’ bites.
13- The dead robbers and the cars were found by……. a helicopter pilot.
14- When the pilot saw the robbers’ cars below,……. he brought the helicopter down and they hurried to help them.
15-The pilot thought that the four robbers died because ….they had run out of water.
16-When the engineer said, “We’d better get on the radio.” the pilot...... left the car and returned to the helicopter.
17- The engineer saved the pilot’s life when ......... he asked him to return to the helicopter to report the police.